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The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has awarded eight contracts totaling $14 million to create t

NIST awarded nearly $3.7 million for three pilot projects that seek to fortify online financial transactions and enhance privacy protections for health care, government services, transportation and the Internet of Things. The studies address specific cyber-based missions such as reducing tax refund theft, among others.

The U.S. government's effort to provide a common baseline of cybersecurity tools across civilian agencies now is available to 97 percent of the departments. This comes after the Department of Homeland Security, through the General Services Administration, awarded three orders under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program.

The ease at which criminals can reverse engineer software makes for lucrative transgressions with national security implications, prompting government-backed researchers to seek innovations to shore up vulnerabilities. DARPA turned to academia and industry and awarded a multiyear mission to develop obfuscation technology to better safeguard intellectual property in software.

Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC, doing business as ID Experts, Portland, Oregon, is being awarded a $133,263,550 firm-fixed-price contract for

Uncle Sam wants you—especially unicorns, leprechauns or something in between. As the U.S. Defense Department revamps the way it protects its critical infrastructures and networks from emerging cyberthreats, military leaders want to reshape their work force and attract to their ranks highly specialized experts, including coveted data scientists.